Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls, Sophie, played by Francoise Arnoul, has a mysterious fixation for a clubby, killer type named Sforzi (you can tell he's a bad guy because he wears a vest). Sforzi has deep seated homocidal designs on an evil father image, Baron von Bergen, who has made his fortunate counterfeiting British pound notes during the war and turned Sforzi from a nice, simple peasant lad into a well-groomed unhappy killer. Into the midst of this sick triangle comes big suave Paris photographer Michel LaFaurie, played by Christian Marquand, who immediately falls in love with Sophie and gets caught...
Fear, inhibition and conformity operate primarily by determining what questions we will decide to ask, not what answers we will give. It is very easy, for example, to decide not to lec- ture on Russia. If you tell yourself that you don't know about Russia, or that it is not pertinent in this course, your personal integrity is never at stake. But once you decide to investigate Russia with your students, it is much harder to lie to them without losing your self-respect...
...Cannon was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she attended school with her future husband. She crossed the country to enter Radcliffe in 1899. "I used to tell my classmates I was born in a wigwam with a buffalo nodding at the door," she recalls. Active in "The Idlers," a dramatic society, and in the Philosophy Club, she threw herself delightedly into a wide variety of courses. "I chose the man and not the subject. That way I became remarkably inspired...
...Cannon loves to tell her age. ("When I get to ninety I'll become really obnoxious about it.") Her age, however, seems to be her only vanity. "I'm a very ordinary person with a very privileged life...
...were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...